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have them put the horses to two wagons which were standing near. ' You won't do any such a thing ! ' she said, coming straight to me. ' Oh!' 1 replied, ' I guess I will. Which side do you belong to, madam?' 'That's none of your business! I have been imposed on by both sides long enough, and I'll take no more of it!' Each man of us had a saber, a pistol, and a double-barreled shotgun ; but I was completely whipped. As the enemy was known to be pressing forward and little time was left to us, we hurried back to town without those wagons. When we got there, the Texas boys were being driven in from the fair grounds. If we had gotten the wagons, the Yankees would have gotten us."

II. The Bushwhacker's Non-Combatant Brother.   A member of the First Cavalry who saw the execution of the bushwhackers noticed in the preceding chapter, and learned the name of one of them, served some years afterward in the Kentucky Legislature with a member who had the same surname   an odd character, who attracted the attention of the former cavalier. He said to him one day: '   Jim, I saw a man of your name shot for bushwhacking during the war." Imagine his astonishment when Jim replied : " Yes, he were my brother. He burnt a good deal of powder before he were shot; but as for me I never burnt none. I said when the war come up I had no powder to burn, and I haint never burnt none yet!" Of course that closed the conversation, and Jim's brother was left to rest in peace.

III. Preparing for Rapid Flight.   Marion Schrimser, Esq., furnished the following incident: " At the battle of Perryville a part of our company (E, First Kentucky Cavalry,) made a charge on Co. F, Ninth Kentucky Federal Cavalry, then commanded by Lieut. Sam D. McMeekin, and captured that officer and fifteen of his men. One of these, Corporal Wm. H. Long, of Eminence, whom some of our Oldham County boys knew, was on the ground when overtaken, pulling off his shoes   a pair of brand-new army brogans. One of our men called out: ' What are you doing there, Bill ?' ' Taking off my shoes,' said he, ' so I can run !' His appearance and haste to get in light running order were so ludicrous that they raised a great laugh among his old neighbors ; but we captured Bill   shoes and all."

IV. A Gallant Escort.   Miss Kittie Todd, then but nineteen years of age, a sister to Mrs. Gen. Helm and half-sister to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, had an experience during the war of which a queen might have been proud, for no queen ever had a bodyguard that would have protected her from insult and danger more promptly and desperately than hers. Before the beginning of hostilities she had gone from Lexington, Ky., to Selma, Ala., to see a sister, and she was still in the South when Gen. Helm was made commandant of the post at Chattanooga, winter of 1862-63. She now wished to return and be with her mother, and Gen. Helm procured a permit for her to pass the lines of the Confederate Army; and as it was deemed impracticable to get passage over the L. & N. Railroad, then controlled by the United States troops as far south as Murfreesboro', he gave her an escort from the First Kentucky Cavalry, which was to accompany her to Uniontown, Ky., where she could take passage on an up-river steamer.   For a week or more, traveling in a buggy with Dr. Bob